Apple

My favorite is getting different search results between my iPhone and my MBP… good times. Mail search is the worst.

On Mac it’s decent. On iOS it is indeed a steaming pile.

mail on Mac is a random shit show where its own unread count feature cannot be counted upon or worse a smart mailbox whose only filter is, messages not read, clearly shows messages that have been read.

and then every update my auto complete for addresses decides a new email address is the one I want even though I have not used it in years.

Do you use Google for your email? If so, switch to Mimestream. Still feels like Apple Mail, but with none of the shittiness.

Agree! It's amazing (in a a bad way) how many times the mail item I was searching for shows up a week or two later. :(

I’m actually super confused because I search through 2 decades of hundreds of thousands of emails, and I never have issues. I do this daily.

People, myself included, have experienced problems with the spotlight generated database of the mail library. There are various solutions posted on StackOverflow and other sites.

The regression of mail the past 5 years has been awful. Search is the #1 culprit and it’s on all platforms. I don’t even use it for search on iOS. I launch outlook on my iPhone to find emails.

100% agree! I use my Gmail account with Apple Mail and have downloaded the Gmail app literally only to use the search function because at this point I refuse to use Apple Mail’s.

For a variety of reasons I’m currently juggling 7 email accounts, so while Mail has a lot of flaws this would be a game changer for me. I used to use Spark and it did it perfectly, but the privacy/anti-tracking features of the Mail app lured me over, and while that part is great, it’s just so lacking in features that it’s a chore.

Just give me color-coded inboxes and I’d be happy :(

I just gave up and use outlook on iOS. I suggest you do the same since you already use outlook at work. It’s so much better. Stop trying to make everything Apple. Not everything they make (especially software) is the best.

Yeah it’s really really shit and I feel like it got worse when MacOS 13 came out. It was usable on MacOS 12

Mail is awful for search. AWFUL

Threw in the towel long ago and have been using AirMail for the past three years.

I stopped using Mail years ago, search being the biggest issue. I don't think Apple cares. Each update has more needless bells and whistles and search always sucks.

Granted I’m no power user, but I feel like Outlook search is just as bad. Unless I know the exact subject of an email it feels like Outlook search can’t find anything for me.

Because you already bought the phone, they hate you and just want your money. I’m sorry, but it’s the truth. Source: I’m a victim of this as well.